Discover Europe with the 'Only In' Guides! These ground breaking city guides are for independent cultural travellers wishing to escape the crowds and understand cities from different and unusual perspectives. Unique locations, hidden corners and unusual objects.Only in London is a comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 100 fascinating and unusual historical sites in one of Europe's great capital cities, including Roman ruins and sci-fi skyscrapers, little-known museums and novel art spaces, ancient customs and living traditions. From Roman Londinium and Shakespeare's Globe to Winston Churchill's bunker and graffiti artist Banksy. Locations include the Necropolis Railway, Soho's Buddhist temple, ghost stations on the Tube, and the best Eel and Pie shop.

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Author Duncan JD Smith knows his stuff. He's selected more than 100 locations all of which harbour peculiar stories or features. There's plenty of meat here for those who've yet to discover the city's idiosyncracies --www.londonist.com

In a world where places become ever more similar, it is an absolute joy to stumble on the 'Only In' Guides. The author brings to the series the gaze of the enquiring outsider. A refreshing alternative to the prevailing tide of uniformity favoured by too many travel guides --Hidden Europe magazine

London is rich in places to see, and this new guidebook to one of the major cities in the world, will certainly help the reader identify some unusual and worthwhile hidden gems --Reader review

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Discover Europe with the 'Only In' Guides! These ground breaking city guides are for independent cultural travellers wishing to escape the crowds and understand cities from different and unusual perspectives. Unique locations, hidden corners and unusual objects.Only in London is a comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 100 fascinating and unusual historical sites in one of Europe's great capital cities, including Roman ruins and sci-fi skyscrapers, little-known museums and novel art spaces, ancient customs and living traditions. From Roman Londinium and Shakespeare's Globe to Winston Churchill's bunker and graffiti artist Banksy. Locations include the Necropolis Railway, Soho's Buddhist temple, ghost stations on the Tube, and the best Eel and Pie shop.

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5,0 de 5 estrellasA great guide to London's hidden attractions and unique history.

21 de septiembre de 2017 - Publicado en Amazon.com

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London is one of the world's more interesting and diverse cities, but as a frequent visitor to London, I long ago exhausted most any other guide's list of "Top Attractions". Duncan J. D. Smith's "Only in London" guide steps in nicely here, focusing not on the top attractions, but the little hidden gems, unique attractions, and overlooked sites that are truly only in London. Sporting a list of 103 attractions spread over central London's various boroughs, this covers everything from how to find the few various segments of the original Roman city walls (#1), a little enclave of Cambridgeshire inside London (#22), where to find evidence of the hidden River Tyburn (#56), where to find both a museum of gardening *and* Captain Bligh's tomb (#87), and even the old station of the Necropolis Railway that took deceased and mourners out to the suburbs for burial.

But even for a few of the common tourist attractions that it does cover (like Trafalgar Square, #32), it covers a lot of little details that the average tourist is bound to miss, like old gas lamps, or the set of brass Imperial Measures for perches, poles, and chains set into the bottom of the National Gallery's steps.

And while this distinctly isn't a guide that will tell you how to find lodging, negotiate the TfL bus and tube system, or recommend meals, it does mention some of the unique little bits of old-school London still out there, like a proper Pie and Mash shop that still sells jellied eels, once a cornerstone of London dining (#100).

Overall, I've found this guide to be valuable, and it will be several more visits to London before I have fully plumbed its depths.